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Youth For Western Civ Rejected At Providence College

Posted December 10, 2009 by Patrick Young, Esq.

The anti-immigrant Youth For Western Civilization lost its battle for recognition at Catholic Providence College in Rhode Island this week. The Student Congress heard an application by supporters of the group for status as a student organization, but many in student government were concerned that the group’s national mission conflicted with the mission of the Franciscan school.
While local supporters depicted the organization as a discussion group, its militancy was obvious when the national mission was read out loud:
“We have the self-evident right and duty to work for the survival of our own culture and civilization. ¬¶There is no reason to believe that the advances of modernity and the political freedoms we enjoy will endure with the extinction of the civilization that allowed them to exist. Western Civilization is our civilization and in spite of the continual assault and hatred it endures from the radical left, we wish to revive the West, rather than see our civilization be sent to the graveyard of history.”
The mission statement led one student legislator to ask member of the organizing committee “If your main goal is to celebrate and educate on western culture, why would you want to associate with a group that has such a negative image?”
According to the student newspaper The Cowl, following an extended discussion, “a motion to vote was approved, and the proposed legislation was voted down to a round of applause.”
Youth for Western Civilization attracted negative attention last week when the national organization forced its chapter head at the University of North Carolina to give up his post because of his “liberalism”.
For more information, read our primer on Youth For Western Civilization.

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